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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-23
SCINDA'S SCEPTRE.
HOW SHE SWAPS 1T OVER MIsSIs-
SIPPI NEGROES.

A Woman Who Claims Divine Inspira-
ton and Exercises Great Power
Over the Ignorant--She Rigidly En-
forces Honesty and the Prompt Pay
ment of Debts.
Grenade (Niss) Cor. N. o. Picayune.
Grenada county furnishes a new theoc-
racy, which is interesting. Along after the
war a negro woman named Scinda, who
was slave of Capt. Mitchell, farmer of
this county. suddenly revealed it TO the
world that she had been inspired by God,
and was a servant of His to direct His
people, both black and white. She organ
lied band of exhorters, and went from
farm to farm, pleading with both colors to
quit their meanness. Her band grew, and
now it numbers something like 800 members
of her color.
In company with some friends I drove
out to her church. which is situated three
miles from here, Sunday evening. Long be,
fore we reached the church we could hear
the picking of the banjo and the shutting of
feet. Alghting, Scinda, arrayed III gor-
geous red and yellow, came to the door to
greet us and welcome us in. The church is
d Sbl lueiuc Va piiiC AcC'. -AiOuitN'
ON the walls hang her paraphernalia used in
her marches through the country. In the
centre of the room stood little table COW
cred with red cloth of grotesque figures of
white sewed on it, This is where the mem
bers speak.
When we arrived SOLDIER was telling
his inspirations of the day. He consumed
about ten minutes, then they danced and
sung, and played the banjo and shouted.
When dancing begins they all stand up, ana
as many as can JOIN hands until circle is
formed. They march around and around,
singing their own chants, occasionally stop
ping, and each one goes through shuttle"
to the music of banjo This performance
lasts about ten minutes, then another
breaches, then dance, and so on until a
few minutes before they break up for the
day. Then every voice is hushed and still
ness pervades the house.
Rising slowly and deliberately from her
seat, ScInda, the priestess Cf this new, orgi-
nal and strange religion, proceeds to the APP
pointed stand Every one watches her with
wide-eyed wonder and is eager to catch
every syllable of her utterance. Her SER
mons are
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-23
MEDICAL.
TIP ALTON!

TT is caused by Torpid Liver, not enough
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-23
SHORT AND TO THE POINT.

She claims that every word escaping her
lips is from God Her sayings are original
and some of them not devoid of good sense.
In her sermon Sunday, among other things,
she said: ''Some of you darkies are like a
hoecake cooked only on neside You come
to church, and Oh, nothing is too good for
you to do. You sing and pray, and dance
and shout, until one would think
you are ready for heaven. Mon
day comes, you show the raw
side You are with the world you
steal, yon lie and do everything that is
wrong. That is not the kind of religion we
want. We want the hoecaSe cooked through
and through; when you break it in the
middle let it be brown as it is on the bot
TOM" Speaking of law, she said no law
could be made too stringent for her. She
wanted every violation of Gods will pun
ishable on earth as we'll as in the world to
come 1.-THE Judges of our courts" she
said, fought to be baptized in the grace of
God; the Bible says that lawyers ought to
be good and honest, and prosecuting attor-
neys ought to be choc kfull of religion. "
She insists on personal cleanliness, and in
this she is not far from godliness. She rig
idly enforces
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-23
HONESTY AND THE PROMPT PAYMENT OF
DEBTS.

When a member of her band is convicted
of doing any deed of dishonesty they are
Immediately expelled from her band
Scinda's power over the temporal affairs OF
her membership is absolute Her law is
their law, and to incur the enmity of THEN
shepherdess is to displease God
She plays a powerful part in the political
affairs of Grenada county and the surround
ing country No politician dares to oppose
her and about election time she is the re-
cipient of more adulation. and homage than
her white opponents of the Scriptures.
She holds the balance of the power, and
when a candidate has her promise of support
he is safe. Her band probably polls 300
votes and every one of them votes as she
directs. They dare not disobey the ten
thousandth part of her simplest behest. 1t
means. if they do, that Scinda S band will
dance them into the bottomless pit of hell.
She believes that person is punished as he
behaves himself on earth; that the more he
sins the worse his punishment. This is in
conflict with the teachings of other churches,
who believe the smallest sin is punished by
torture as great as the largest.
She regards virtue as the highest law OF
God. and it is said that none of the band in
dulge in any RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Her teachings, with all their peculiar
modes of worship, is good. She is
JUST IN ALL THINGS,
and her word is good for anything. The
whites and blacks respect her. She breaches
every Sunday at her little church and oc-
casionally makes trip through the coun-
try. Her meetings are opened by music
and dancing for some time. They usually
commence by S O'Clock and last all day Al
the close there is considerable ceremony. II
is marked by a procession. single file, each
one CARRYING a symbol marked by design,
moving under the music of the fiddle and
banjo After rounds of marchings they
assemble in solemn awe around then priest
ess, Scinda, whose presence indicates she
stands ON
- THE OUTER CIRCLE OF DIVINITY.
Here, after singing their peculiar re-
QUEENS they disperse one by one. Occas-
ionally one is overcome by clear
visions of future happiness and demon
STATIONS, followed by hallelujahs and dane
ing.
SScinda is small woman, with plainly
marked features of African and Caucasian
intermixed Ignorant and uneducated, she
has the confidence of a class Of people who
are marked by their good behavior, the
payment of their debts and their love for
Scinda and her doctrines.
...She nor her band is rot subject of doris
ion. They are subjects for thought. In
this enlightened age, closely surrounded by
churches, this woman has built up an influ-
ence that is powerful and continues &c
grow. She firmly declares that God has
told her the world would come to q close
this year This statement only came from
her few days ago, and the colored people
are exercised over her message from God
as they were never before.
JAMES S. EVANS, JE.
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User tit Trau @tnslotu ?

Da bieie 6rase oft seitelt wirb, molen
mir einfud iusen, paB fe cine Dame 1T
bic eS li4 felt 80 Sabren 5ur Gufsabe mad.
te, Srauenfranfbeiten, hauptiddlid aber
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bat fe bic Sinber 3u Dant perphidtet.
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Siefer Softer 1T i6per, fabrt i'm fofort
gu Wtrs. 2egrano, Die Dame tpeiB, pobin
bamit. 9ier 1T Der S6liKel.
Sd purbe bod gebpben, aber ba
i3manb aud mein g~emuBtiein, Mamgel
on 9uft urb Nabrung battel mid obtts
md6tig gema6t. Sd fam er1t aumdlig
pieoer gu mir i'm 0auie bon Mrs. 2es
granb, uo lauter Samen meiner Bartei
mid umgaben unb nit tauIenb ;sraaen
befiirmten.
geantporten tbat i'd llur bic cine
ni9t: pie i6 ndmli6 in MiB sSannp
2emis' 9roBen Softer getomme1 =
Mber feds Sabre barauf ertldrte 1i6 audi
bies, als i'd Dem Sbert 2emis in Maih.
ington Dorseftellt pu1be. Ct nabm
mid nit ii6 in fem 6aus, no i6 beibe
Gannp's lab. Sd bofe, Mrs. 2ewis
bdlt es n;@t fir nnbanf, baB i'd lau1
unb ofen befenne, bic 1nbli9e sSannn
gefiel mir bod am beifen, felt 5 Sabren
it fie mein geliebtes Weib uno Oberf
Sepis mein S@maser.
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eomig-extraetoren, 8ienen.& an6er, MeFer Il.
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"a ben ntebrtgfen Marftpreifen fit "cash".
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0snt. &HRfna u sphn.

uniere Dauptnabrung 1T unb bleibt
bas Sleii9, unb Inn iol9es frii9 unb
gut gu erlangen, fann man uttm6glid
einen suDerldiiigeren Marft finben, als
ben BON Wm. 96fing & 5obn, go.
511 NDe. s. Sic 9erren baben BEN
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tragen unb in ibrem @tabliKement eime
falte 2uftmaf9ine erri9tet, tpel1e allen
Nnforoerungen fir @rbaltung unb gnt=
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Gleii9es entipri9t. Sic baber beiidn=
big in ibren 8iebb6fen einen groBen
8orratb bon Wafbieb, aus pel6em
ttur bas geffe fir lire &unoer getpdbli
piro. Wer reel bebiettt fem min, Der
6eiu6e BEN Marft, So. 511
Mpenue y. 1,10t1i
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Rauberiide Tabrtfate.

Won 3eit gu 3eit weroen gefdbrli9e
Waarer angefertigt UNI bas Publifum
gu betrbgen, unb iie auf ben Naneu uni
ben &uf bon Simmons 2iper
&egulator' III perfaufen. Sn 5
iurifif9en @ntl9eibungen iinb bon ben
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trdgereien @inbaltsbefeble BON be(tdnbi.
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a1aTeripremsem init e@lamdem.

perionen, mel6e fi9 beim WaKer,
fprengen Der @9ldude 5ebienen tpoIs
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N%uHorberung ni@t na9fommt unb bic
borgei9riebenen 8ebingungen nidt ers
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Galifprnia @eime.

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-07-02
New YOrk's Rising Generation.

From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
lady had the bad luck to step on her diamond
bar pin and break the fastening. She rang for q
messenger, and sat down to write q note that
the boy could mail on his way to the jeweller. As
she was directing the envelope the boy entered
''Take that she said, extending the pin, and
never looking up, as she finished the Superscrip-
on intending TO add "tO the Jewellers at the cor
ner and wait for It,"
But the small tough not much higher than
the table, broke In before she could finish her
sentence, with "How much do you want to got on
fte'
The astonished lady looked at the little rul1ian 10
amazement. allow much do want to get on it9'
she repeated.
Yes: you wants me to pound 1t, don't yer?r
Pound IL? Mercy, no. Just stepped on 1t and
have broken the pin"
That don't Spite the sparkle. guess you can
get twenty cases ON it,
why, boy, what are talking about?"
ION, come on! Der yer want me TO hook 1t, OF
don't yer? What's yer rackete'
The lady called for help. She had heard that the
Insane possessed unnatural strength and though
this young cub didn't weigh ninety She couldn't
tell what he might do II he was as crazy as he
talked 1t was not until the servant acted as In
terpreter that the hOodlum was made to under.
stand the brooch was to go TO 1eweller TO be re.
paired, instead OF pawnbrokers shop; but the
boy explained that most all the ladies who sent
such things by him 'was spouters, and was raiSin
the wind ON their supers and sparkles."
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A Salutary Earthquake.
From the Virginia Enterprise


A Comstocker who yesterday returned from
Valleys Hot Springs says there was lively time
the night OF the earthquake among the "oid rheu-
matte stifs." He says the shocks at the springs
were simply terrific. They were rough at Genva,
and racked the courthouse and other buildings
badly, but were mere SILVER compared with the
big thumps that made the hotel at valleys dance
llgS He declares that had such shocks visited the
Comstock, not brick building in Virginia, New,
would have been left standing. There was the
widest CONSERVATION among the patients. Men
WHO mad been hmping about for days hardly able
t 10 put one iooI before the other, and men who
thQught they could not navigate at all, except on
clutches hoped OUT OF their beds as nfmbly as
youths or sixteen. Cramped and crooked legs
Were sstraigniened out In hurry. Not man re.
memDered That he had ever had rheumatism. He
says that even Johnny cullen, the weIl-known
ComstOcker, who for days had been carried from
one PED 70 another, hoped up as lively as Q
cricket and beat all the rest at getting into his
clothes He says Johnny may have done some
lively dressing as fireman in early days but or
tnis occasion me just flew into his clotheS' IL Is
the opinion OF our ComStOcker that the shaking
up Old all the patients good. In his own case, hi
Is sure that II almost made him We'll As regards
the enect OF the shocks on the springs, the now
from tnem mas been about doubled, and the water
twice as hot as before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-07-02
A Divers Fight with a Shark.

From the London Telegraph
A diver named Quintree had remarkable fight
with formidable fish called the boultous or bon
dro, kind OF shark which tnfests the Breton
coast at Douarnenez, the other day. Quintree had
a narrow escape. The diver, an old Salt, was en-.
ployed by the government, and in pursuit Of his
daily labor duly descended, In diving apparatus,
of the Douarnenez pier for the purpose OF laying
the foundation OF an addition to that structure
While he was at the bottom OF the sea the men
who were working the a1r-pump In the pOntOOn
boat above were suddenly frightened by feeling
the alarm signal. They instantly pulled up and
brought large boultOuS, nearly eight feet long,
to the surface. The marine monsters head formed
three-quarters OF his length, and his under jaws
were OF Immense size. Shortly afterward Quintree
came up, his hand on the air pipe OF his helmet,
and his diving apparatus somewhat damaged.
When he went down to his work he had scarcely
got TO the last rung Of the ladder when he saw the
sea monster lying between two huge Jumps OF
rock He had In his hands only his stone ch1se and
hammer, and he intended to go up for a crOwbar
at once but the fish was too fast for him. 1t came
toward him through the green water with its
enormous jaws wide open. without losing mo-
ment Quintree managed to wound the animal In
the throat with his chisel, and then held 1t down
On stone while he drew his knife and made q
hole In its body through which he passed rope,
and thus sent the nSh TO the surface. Had It not
beeL for his Quickness and dextertty the diver,
owing TO the rents which the fish would make In
his apparatus, would have been drowned and then
that was not only defeated but eaJen for its body
was divided among the victor and bis comrades
who made capital 6Ouilldbaisse OF its prime
parts.